THE VOICE OF THE LORD
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” (John 10:27). “Every one that is of the truth heareth My voice.” (John 18:37). “And this voice which came from heaven we heard...” (2 Peter 1:18). God wants every one of His children to learn to hear and recognize the voice of his Master and Lord. God delights to speak to His children and to have them speak to Him. It is this intimate relationship – this divine fellowship – which God has desired from the dawn of creation. Man lost that close relationship with God by Adam’s fateful error; but now, in Christ Jesus, it is regained. When the Lord called Paul to serve Him, He sent a disciple by the name of Ananias to lay hands on Paul to restore his eyesight and speak these words to him: “ The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know His will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of His mouth. For thou shalt be His witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and